Just a thought by coppi

Yesterday a nurse was preparing me to get ready for cataract surgery. They were running late so she asked me to come into a room with her so she could go over all the questions, etc they ask before surgery.  When it got to my age, she looked at me startled and said “surely you are not the age listed on your fact sheet”. “Yes I said -but age is a number, it’s how you feel that counts”.  She then said “what do you do to stay young”.  Since I am a follower of Christ I always look for a window of opportunity to witness the love of Christ to a person.  My response was simply:  “I try to take care of the temple Jesus lives in, me, by feeding my inner man with God’s word as I would my outer person nutritionally.  She was from another country and immigrated to the United States years ago.  She, too, was a Christian and spent time witnessing to me, which I enjoyed.  The one thing she said, that struck a chord with me was that people of the United States should read what the Bible says about how God warned the people of Israel to stay away from worshiping idols, etc and doing their own thing and forgetting about him.  She said “God had great patience with them, but they would not heed His warning”.  She said she was concerned the Americans were doing the same thing as the Israelites.  My thoughts drifted back to what my dear mother would say (she has been gone many years now) “When you take God out of a country, it will fall” and I can’t help but think we as a nation are headed that way.  

My cataract surgery was successful and I am on my way to seeing much better, which I am grateful for; but I pray and wonder about our nation and what we stand for:

“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”

May we change our direction….I pray so.

Just a thought by coppi